Mass-elite policy preference congruence lies at the heart of the study of democratic representation. In this paper, substantiated by a meta-analysis result grounded in all related empirical works between 1960 and 2020, we demonstrate that the literature on mass-elite congruence has witnessed a dramatic increase in the past decade. This burgeoning literature, however, has three blind spots which we aim to uncover. First, despite the vast executive powers of presidents and their often-differentiated issue positions from their political parties, the literature has exclusively focused on political parties to the neglect of presidents including in (semi-) presidential democracies. Second, with few exceptions, the literature has not so far distinguished between partisan and independent voters and between voters and non-voters. Given the rise of electoral volatility across the globe, including in Western Europe, it is essential to have such distinctions. Third, the literature has overlooked the study of mass-elite congruence in several new democracies across Africa, Asia and Latin America based on the false premise that political dimensions are antithetical to clientelism. We show, nevertheless, that many of those societies have developed stable political dimensions that often went hand-in-hand with clientelistic or personalistic party-voter linkages. Moreover, based on Eastern European and Northeast Asian examples, we demonstrate that some of these dimensions are internationally, not domestically, rooted reflecting the surrounding geopolitical situations. Bridging these blind spots, we argue, is essential for a more accurate and comprehensive study of mass-elite policy preference congruence in particular and for the study of political representation in general.